PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at grisar@forward.com and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Culture In ‘The Reports On Sarah And Saleem,’ An Affair Enters Dangerous Territory
Saleem and Sarah have a routine. In the mornings, he delivers pastries from the bakery that employs him to Sarah’s cafe. In the evenings, she drives to him in an empty parking lot and they have sex in his van. But this simple arrangement is not so simple. Both are married (Sarah has a toddler;…
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Fast Forward InfoWars Pays $15,000 To Pepe The Frog Creator
Alex Jones’ InfoWars has paid up for its unauthorized use of a familiar cartoon frog. Cartoonist Matt Furie won a $15,000 settlement against Jones’ website for using his creation Pepe the Frog in merchandise espousing a far-right worldview, The Washington Post reports. Pepe, a teary-eyed anthropomorphic amphibian, dreamed up by Furie as a “peaceful frog-dude”…
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Theater WATCH: The First Trailer For ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ Documentary ‘Miracle Of Miracles’
It seems like “Fiddler” fever may never break. Hot on the heels of the Folksbiene’s Yiddish production of the Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick classic comes a documentary chronicling how the hit musical came to occupy a beloved place in the American songbook — getting there wasn’t easy. In a newly-released trailer for “Fiddler: A…
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Culture Is This Book About ‘Global Power’ Anti-Semitic?
A book by a Spanish colonel, released in translation in the U.K. in April, contained several passages about the Rothschilds, George Soros and their purported control over global events in its original Spanish edition according to a concerned author and Twitter user. The book’s cover features grasping octopus tentacles, a regular feature of Third Reich…
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Culture Behind The Backlash: Ava Duvernay’s Central Park Five Series Prompts Anger At Linda Fairstein
In the days following the release of Netflix’s four-part series “When They See Us,” a call for justice swept the internet. The series, director Ava DuVernay’s dramatization of the infamous wrongful conviction of five black and Latino teens for the 1989 rape of a female jogger in Central Park, spawned a widespread demand that Linda…
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Culture Activists In Rome Are Countering Hate Symbols With Art
On the streets of Rome, two factions are engaged in a war of words and images. On one side is a group that appears to have far-right sympathies, scrawling swastikas and Celtic crosses on crosswalks, in alleys and on walls. On the other side: a group countering these symbols with poetry. It started on the…
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Film & TV Spielberg Joins Katzenberg For A Spooky Series You Can Only See At Night
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Theater Hades Has A Field Day As ‘Hadestown’ And ‘The Ferryman’ Take The Tonys
The Greek realm of the dead had a banner year at the 2019 Tony Awards. If eight wins for Anaïs Mitchell’s “Hadestown,” a folk retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth wasn’t enough, Jez Butterworth’s “The Ferryman,” which alludes to Charon, the famed boatman who carried the dead through the River Styx in its title,…
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